Jharkhand

Doctors plastered the fractured right ankle of Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday, a week after Munda, his wife and four others suffered injuries when the helicopter carrying them crash-landed here.

Jharkhand Speaker C P Singh was on Wednesday sentenced to a month's imprisonment in a 2005 case of breach of public order by burning an effigy of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, but was immediately given bail.

Former Jharkhand minister Kamlesh Singh, who was arrested in a disproportionate assets case in 2009, was today granted bail by the Jharkhand High Court.

Normal life in the urban areas remained unaffected in Jharkhand's East and West Singhbhum and Seraikela-Kharswan districts during the 'Bharat bandh' called by Maoists on Wednesday.

Five people, accused of selling and buying a teenaged girl three years ago, were on Wednesday sentenced to 10 to five years in jail by a local court here.

Two children on Tuesday drowned in Tiril Talab, a pond in Ranchi city. Both the children were identified as – seven-year-old Rishu Sahu and five-year-old Ajit Sahu. According to police, the incident took place while they were playing.

Jharkhand Speaker C P Singh was on Wednesday sentenced to a month's imprisonment in a 2005 case of breach of public order by burning an effigy of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, but was immediately given bail.

Maoists detained a passenger train in Jharkand's West Singhbhum district for nearly 20 minutes with a one-kg can bomb hung from the front of its engine, ahead of the 'Bharat bandh' called by the ultras on Wednesday, police said on Tuesday.

Maoists detained the Tata-Bilaspur passenger train near Posaita Station in Saranda forest in Jharkhand and hung a one-kg can bomb in front of the engine before engaging security personnel in an encounter.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda, who suffered multiple injuries in a helicopter crash, was on Saturday shifted to the ward from the ICU.